Re: My GWorkspace feature request

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-06-21 13:56:58 +0100 Pete French <pete@twisted.org.uk> wrote:

> > You do pointedly ignore it.  Context menus are invisible menus with
> > shifting geography and will always be unavoidably slower to use than
> > the main ones.
> Thats a good reason for not enforcing their use. But its not a good 
> argument
> for not providing them at all.

If they are provided at all, some developers will put features on them 
that don't appear anywhere else, which effectively forces their use.

[...]
> Please explain clearly and ssuccinctly why its wrong for me to empty 
> my
> wastebasket in the way I do.

Don't get me wrong: it isn't the users fault for using them if it's 
the easiest way to do a task.  It normally means that the proper way 
is broken.

Context menus are wrong because they are inconsistent and hidden.  How 
would you rather empty your wastebasket?  Would you prefer to have the 
menu entry in a place that you can remember, or put some emptying tool 
near it?  It sounds to me that they have used a context menu instead 
of using a decent main menu.  I think that is inevitable.  Context 
menus encourage laziness in interface design.  Looking at each case 
individually, using a context menu will be a quick fix for the 
developer, but the cost is for all users, so we must not let them into 
GNUstep.  Fix the interface.  Please don't bodge it.

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